Ecosystem Unit Test Review

What is an ecosystem?

• A community of living things.

• A community of non-living things.

• An economical system of things.

• A community of living and non-living things.

Which of the following are examples of non-living things (Mark all that apply).

• fish

• soil

• humidity

• weather

• trees

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Abiotic means _______ and biotic means _______.

• non-living; living

• climate; location

• living; non-living

• moving; non-moving

What are characteristics of Biotic factors (what can they do)? (Mark all that apply)

• respond to stimuli

• pass on traits

• repair cells

• grow

• reproduce

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What are the three types of living things found in an ecosystem?

• producers, consumers, second consumers

• producers, consumers, decomposers

• producers, scavengers, primary consumers

• producers, primary, secondary

Living things that make their own food are called _______________.

• animals

• producers

• consumers

• predators

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Animals that get their energy from plants are called ________________.

• Primary Producer

• Secondary Consumer (Omnivores/Carnivores)

• Tertiary Consumer (Carnivores)

• Primary Consumer (Herbivores)

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Animals that get their energy from herbivorous animals are called ______________________.

• Tertiary Consumers

• Primary Consumers

• Secondary Consumers

• Producers

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Microorganisms and fungi are examples of ______________________.

• Decomposers
• Producers

• Consumers

• Chemical Energy

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Food chains always start with __________________.

• producers
• consumers
• the sun
• decomposers